· Private foundation
John H and Mary Wilkes Short Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $550
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,048 |
| EGYPTIAN THEATRE | $10,000 |
| ROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $550 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BCBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $160k · revenue +91%
- PCPark City Performances3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +23%
- MTMountain Town Stages3× · 2021–2023 · $39k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- UOU OF U GARDNER COMMONSone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LWLIZZYS WALK OF FAITHgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +90%
- SASUITSSTILETTOS AND LIPSTICK FOUone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To drive collaboration among partners from every healthcare sector to power advances in science, policy and regulation that speed life-saving treatments to patients.
Cancer research and treatment fund,inc.(cr&t) funds research emphasizing the cause,prevention,treatment,and cure of myeloproliferative neoplasms(mpns)and alsofunds other blood and solid tumor cancer research.
Raise funds for children cancer research by putting on music concerts.
The mission of Casting for Recovery (CfR) is to empower women in treatment or recovery from breast cancer, through oncology-informed retreats that connect women to each other and nature using the therapeutic sport of fly fishing - all at…
With a single focus on funding research, the CMT Research Foundation exclusively funds research leading to the discovery, development, and clinical application of treatments and cures for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT).
Zoetic Stage was founded in 2010 to create fresh, bold interpretations of contemporary plays and musicals, and is dedicated to enhancing South Florida's national artistic profile by producing regional premieres and developing new works to…
Our promise is to commit 100 percent of gross fundraising dollars to breast cancer research. The Foundation awards grants to researchers in pre-clinical and clinical research who are investigating breast cancer cures and improved…
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
The tyler trent foundation is dedicated to continuing tyler's mission to support pediatric cancer research and honor his memory.
Promote awareness of and financial support for cancer charities
To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tsr Adventures Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Town Stages. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Park City Performances ↗
- Who funds Mountain Town Stages ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIZZYS WALK OF FAITH ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUITSSTILETTOS AND LIPSTICK FOU ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TSR Adventures Inc ↗
- Who funds NEPAL CLEFT & BURN CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John H and Mary Wilkes Short Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.